This is pretty long, so bear with me.
After installing a router, torrents began crashing my computer (I previously had my network set up on a hub, with few problems). I tried every Bittorrent client known to man, and had the same problem with all of them. My computer froze up, I was forced to press reset, etc, etc... I had first assumed that it was the router's fault, or that my ISP had simply blocked torrent traffic, but I've recently been able to rule out both of those possibilities.
I know that lots of people have the same problems with torrents, but here's what got me thinking...
I've been running Windows 2000 Pro for the past couple of years without many problems, and I've been hesitant to upgrade to XP for numerous reasons. But since torrents were screwing up my system by crashing so often (in spite of having properly forwarded ports), I decided to try installing XP Pro SP2 on the same system, same drive, same network card, and with the same router settings. And lo and behold, my torrents went ZOOM, and I haven't had a crash since.
This leads me to believe that either Win2k and XP handle torrent traffic in different ways somehow, or that it's just the NIC driver on my Win2k install that was causing the crashes.
I'd like to keep my Win2k install and not be forced to fully migrate to XP, if possible. So if anyone could, please shed some light on why one install on the same system could work, while another install fails miserably every time. Is it the OS? And are there any drastically different default network settings in each? <img src=smilies/mystery.gif>
Oh, and another mystery is that even after my computer and internet lock up, every other computer on my home network still has access to the internet. And what's even more baffling is that if I have a guest OS running in VMware when my computer locks up, I can still use it, and can still access the internet from the guest OS. <img src=smilies/retard.gif>
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After installing a router, torrents began crashing my computer (I previously had my network set up on a hub, with few problems). I tried every Bittorrent client known to man, and had the same problem with all of them. My computer froze up, I was forced to press reset, etc, etc... I had first assumed that it was the router's fault, or that my ISP had simply blocked torrent traffic, but I've recently been able to rule out both of those possibilities.
I know that lots of people have the same problems with torrents, but here's what got me thinking...
I've been running Windows 2000 Pro for the past couple of years without many problems, and I've been hesitant to upgrade to XP for numerous reasons. But since torrents were screwing up my system by crashing so often (in spite of having properly forwarded ports), I decided to try installing XP Pro SP2 on the same system, same drive, same network card, and with the same router settings. And lo and behold, my torrents went ZOOM, and I haven't had a crash since.
This leads me to believe that either Win2k and XP handle torrent traffic in different ways somehow, or that it's just the NIC driver on my Win2k install that was causing the crashes.
I'd like to keep my Win2k install and not be forced to fully migrate to XP, if possible. So if anyone could, please shed some light on why one install on the same system could work, while another install fails miserably every time. Is it the OS? And are there any drastically different default network settings in each? <img src=smilies/mystery.gif>
Oh, and another mystery is that even after my computer and internet lock up, every other computer on my home network still has access to the internet. And what's even more baffling is that if I have a guest OS running in VMware when my computer locks up, I can still use it, and can still access the internet from the guest OS. <img src=smilies/retard.gif>
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